Big Mouth, Netflix’s animated puberty comedy, is returing for a seventh season next month, and they’re adding a big music name to the cast: Megan Thee Stallion. Her guest appearance was revealed in a teaser trailer today, which highlights the arrival of Megan’s character, named Hormone Monstress Megan, who rides down from the sky on […]
yeule – “softscars”
Next week marks the release of softscars, the new album from electronic shoegaze experimentalist yeule. They’ve shared a lot of music from the record already, and today they’re back with the title track. Within the softscars concept, each song is a diary entry of sorts tied to some “scar” from yeule’s past. The glitchy, effervescent […]
Tinashe Says She Didn’t Want To Release Those Singles With R. Kelly And Chris Brown
Back in 2019, Tinashe left her label home at RCA and struck out on her own; last week, she released BB/Ang3l, her third project since going independent. While signed to the label, she released collaborations with Chris Brown and R. Kelly, both in 2015, and she recently talked about how her label pushed her to […]
Denzel Curry – “Sked” (Feat. Kenny Mason)
Denzel Curry is taking us back right now. The young Florida rap legend released his searching, introspective album Melt My Eyez, See Your Future last year. Lately, though, he’s been building up to the release of 13LOOD 1N + 13LOOD OUT RELOADED, the sequel to his short and bruising 2020 EP 13LOOD 1N + 13LOOD […]
Spinal Tap Bassist Derek Smalls Releases New Single “Must Crush Barbie”
Derek Smalls, the bassist for heavy metal greats Spinal Tap, has released a new single, “Must Crush Barbie,” aimed at the blockbuster sensation of the summer. “Been spending the last year or so as Brand Ambassador for BruegelCoin, the Dutch cryptocurrency,” Smalls explained in a statement. “Since it was cratering this past spring, I was […]
Bad History Month – “Touch The Riff”
Last month, Philly’s Bad History Month (Sean Sprecher) announced a new album, God Is Luck, which follows the just-released True Delusion EP. We’ve already heard the new album’s title track, and today Sprecher is sharing another album track called “Touch The Riff.” “I re-learned ‘Touch The Riff’ recently and I like it better than I […]
Aesop Rock – “Mindful Solutionism”
A couple of months ago, the world was presented with a strange spectacle: A video of Mark Zuckerberg, one of the most powerful men on the planet, wakeboarding while listening to Aesop Rock. (It turned out to be an Aesop guest verse from an Evidence song, but still.) That must’ve been weird for Aesop Rock, […]
Brutus – “Love Won’t Hide The Ugliness”
One year ago, the Belgian power trio Brutus came roaring back with Unison Life, another album of epic and pulverizing hard rock. Today, as a nice little surprise, they’ve announced a 2024 North American tour and dropped a new single called “Love Won’t Hide The Ugliness.” It’s got Stefanie Mannaerts wailing over crashing chords, and […]
Land Of Talk – “Pwintiques”
Lizzie Powell’s firmly revived Land Of Talk is nearing the release of the third album since the project picked back up in 2017. Performances is due out in October, and we’ve heard lead single “Your Beautiful Self” from it so far. Today, Powell is sharing the seven-minute closing track “Pwintiques,” a moody and escalating instrumental […]
The Staves – “You Held It All”
In early 2021, fantastic folk-rock sisters the Staves released Good Woman, the last thing Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor recorded with their sister and bandmate Emily Staveley-Taylor before she stepped away to focus on motherhood. Today the UK band has returned with their first new song since then, their debut as a duo. It’s called “You […]